11-08-2010, 11:17 AM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: SE Calgary!!!
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Yeah, they're absolutely fantastic ships for their size/role. During a joint wargame in the 90s, a lone Halifax-class frigate was able to successfully sneak up on an entire US carrier group, "sink" the carrier, and then escape safely. I've often wondered if the US government secretly pressured other nations not to buy them to help prop up their own naval shipbuilding industry.
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The United States would NEVER do anything like that. Especially not in the 1960s.
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